Austin Taylor Communications, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Communications Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JCS), announced today that it will join forces with Suttle, Inc., another CSI subsidiary; located in Bethesda, Wales, United Kingdom. Austin Taylor Communications is a highly respected manufacturer of telecommunication products designed primarily to British standards with over 60 years of experience. The integration into Suttle will help Austin Taylor better serve an increasingly international customer base with a more diverse product offering and deeper development of relationships with customers in the United Kingdom and across Europe. Austin Taylor Communications’ product lines will be available immediately under the “Austin Taylor by Suttle” brand name. (more…)

Hometime, a home improvement show hosted by Dean Johnson, has been on the air for 24 seasons and in syndication for nine years. Hometime is known for helping homeowners achieve professional-looking results on their home improvement projects.

Recently, Suttle was featured with their line of SOHO Access™ structured wiring enclosures and modules along with their line of SpeedStar™ connectors and faceplates on an upcoming episode of Hometime.  The episode (Stone Cottage 29: Carpet) set to air in April 2011, is the third time Suttle has been fortunate enough to appear on the program. The system that was installed distributes the home’s basic voice, data, and video networks and demonstrated the versatility of Suttle’s structured wiring products. These products offer a flexible and aesthetically pleasing way to organize a large number of connections in a small amount of space.

For air dates and times, visit Hometime’s “station finder” at www.hometime.com and check for local station listings. To see clips of Suttle’s previous appearances on Hometime visit www.suttleonline.com/video and click on the Hometime tab.

Suttle Hometime Clips:

April 2011 Appearance
February 2008 Appearance
April 2007 Appearance

Yes that’s not a mistake. As of the end of September 2010 Suttle has shipped over 100 Million (100,000,000) DSL filters since it first introduced the product in 2000. That’s enough filters, if one was plugged into the next in a continuous line, to stretch across the United States from San Diego, California to Jacksonville, Florida two and a half times.

This major milestone not only demonstrates the success of the product, but also illustrates Suttle’s commitment to quality and long-term customer relationships as well. We’re proud of the part we’ve played in helping to deliver data services in the past 10 years with these filters, as well as the legacy of phone communications we’ve supported for the last 100 years. And we intend to use this experience, expertise, and commitment to quality to push innovation in the future.

Experience from the last century, Innovation for the next.

Today’s service providers face more competition than ever before. The boundaries separating services (voice, data, and video) are disappearing and customers seeking those services are being courted by telephone, cable, satellite, and wireless providers, each of which offers some or all of the components users want. The days of the single service provider are clearly numbered, and competition from providers who can deliver a full slate of services can be a very real threat to an existing subscriber base.

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Suttle announces that it has officially joined the HomePNA™ alliance and will begin shipping HomePNA™ certified products beginning in Q2 of this year.

“Suttle is excited to join the HomePNA™ alliance as an adopter and looks forward to continued development of products that make it easy for service providers and consumers alike to install and maintain home networks,” said Jay Kilby, Dir of Marketing at Suttle. “HomePNA technology complements our full line of high-quality triple-play home networking connectivity products.”

According to a recent study by Parks Associates, a service provider-deployed home networking solution is among the key value-added features that correlate to happier customers.¹ The HomePNA alliance has also found that Telcos that have deployed HomePNA generally experience higher fixed line retention, higher ARPU, and greater customer satisfaction.²

Created to ensure the development of a consumer-friendly, low-cost, high-speed “existing-wires” solution for home networking over phone wires and coax cables, HomePNA technology has been standardized by the ITU G.hn. In addition to data rates up to 320Mbps, HomePNA provides guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) and remote management and diagnostics capability, enabling service providers to meet – and drive – the growing demand for new services such as IPTV and VOIP.

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¹ Rural Broadband Services and the Digital Home, Kurt Scherf, Parks Associates, August 2009. www.parksassociates.com
² Bell Canada Joins HomePNA; Press Release. January 7, 2010; www.homepna.org